An archaic medical term describing a morbid or corrupted state of the blood or body humors; a disordered bodily condition.
From Greek kakos (bad) + chymos (juice, humor). This term from humoral medicine theory described what was believed to be unhealthy bodily chemistry.
Cacochymia is perhaps the most common of these 'caco-' medical terms—ancient and medieval doctors invoked it whenever they couldn't quite identify what was wrong with a patient's body.
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